Re: [Slightly OT] Small GNU Emacs lookalike, UTF-8-able

From:

Leonardo Boiko

Subject:

Re: [Slightly OT] Small GNU Emacs lookalike, UTF-8-able

Date:

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:45:05 -0400

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David Kastrup wrote:

Emacs is not really that terrible concerning memory consumptions. I
suspect your window system to be involved with your problems here.
You should aim for a lean window manager like icewm and see whether
this allows you to run a straightforward Emacs.

I was running ratpoison, the One True WM, which is very small. Just for
the record I also tried simply Emacs, without a WM. Not good.

I'm running Emacs CVS for better Unicode support. Other possible causes
of memory consumption are the use of Japanese fonts, old X 3 (it's the
only one that runs with my video card), a hardware problem, and some
weird behavior of NetBSD. I suspect Emacs (blasphemy!).

Is someone else running CVS GNU Emacs in a system with 24MiB or less of
RAM?
--
Leonardo Boiko